I need to get more pictures of the 13th Doctor in my image library. The same two over and over are getting old.
One of the things reviewers and commentators get to hear when they discuss something they haven’t seen, whether they’re judging from the marketing or other reviewers who braved the media they already expected to hate that confirmed everything they were expecting. This is especially true when you know it’s going to be a terrible adaptation regardless of the quality of the work (*ahem*). It’s gotten to the point where these defenders of “you can’t review it until you see it” don’t always practice what they preach. They’ve already made up their minds that ANY rebuke of something that’s been reworked to cater to their preferences is racistsexisthomophobicbigotry and you will so not convince them otherwise that you shouldn’t have even bothered saying something contrary to what they think. They don’t want to know WHY you don’t like it, they just don’t want to hear you put down something they love…while constantly putting down, trashing, and sometimes outright remaking something they hate and declaring it wasn’t “made for you”. That’s the essence of the “everything for meeeeeeeeeeeeee” crowd.
For example, before I went offline I brought you a five-hour essay by Jay Exci going over everything Chris Chibnall did wrong as showrunner for Doctor Who, which included things like unnecessary retcons, stories that make the heroes look like the baddies because going after the sociopolitical target of the day was more important, not giving Jodie Whitaker’s Doctor a personality to act with (that’s the 13th Doctor, not the actress–you work with what the script and director give you, even when it’s bupkis), and not really understanding the source material. Not to mention the butt-ugly control room that makes wish they went with the coral room of Davies. Yes, it’s that bad, and Chibnall was handing the best design in New Who and said “nah, I want a big honking crystal in the center that looks like a volcano died mid-eruption and a claustrophobic version of McGann’s pylons where you can barely get a good camera angle”. If you’re going to put your own mark on something, make sure you have the creativity and respect of the work you are now steward of to make it good. The video made the case that he didn’t.
So watch the original video before you watch the following video. I know its five hours but worth it, and will give you an edge over the protestors who clearly didn’t watch it at all before making rage rants that caused Exci to make this follow-up video (don’t worry, this one is just under 30 minutes) where he clarifies his previous critiques and pushes back against those who didn’t even watch it before saying it was garbage. Note that both contains profanity. I like to warn people because I don’t use it myself so it’s good to have a heads up in something I can’t edit for PG
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Responding To The Chibnall Who Essay Backlash
I need to get more pictures of the 13th Doctor in my image library. The same two over and over are getting old.
One of the things reviewers and commentators get to hear when they discuss something they haven’t seen, whether they’re judging from the marketing or other reviewers who braved the media they already expected to hate that confirmed everything they were expecting. This is especially true when you know it’s going to be a terrible adaptation regardless of the quality of the work (*ahem*). It’s gotten to the point where these defenders of “you can’t review it until you see it” don’t always practice what they preach. They’ve already made up their minds that ANY rebuke of something that’s been reworked to cater to their preferences is racistsexisthomophobicbigotry and you will so not convince them otherwise that you shouldn’t have even bothered saying something contrary to what they think. They don’t want to know WHY you don’t like it, they just don’t want to hear you put down something they love…while constantly putting down, trashing, and sometimes outright remaking something they hate and declaring it wasn’t “made for you”. That’s the essence of the “everything for meeeeeeeeeeeeee” crowd.
For example, before I went offline I brought you a five-hour essay by Jay Exci going over everything Chris Chibnall did wrong as showrunner for Doctor Who, which included things like unnecessary retcons, stories that make the heroes look like the baddies because going after the sociopolitical target of the day was more important, not giving Jodie Whitaker’s Doctor a personality to act with (that’s the 13th Doctor, not the actress–you work with what the script and director give you, even when it’s bupkis), and not really understanding the source material. Not to mention the butt-ugly control room that makes wish they went with the coral room of Davies. Yes, it’s that bad, and Chibnall was handing the best design in New Who and said “nah, I want a big honking crystal in the center that looks like a volcano died mid-eruption and a claustrophobic version of McGann’s pylons where you can barely get a good camera angle”. If you’re going to put your own mark on something, make sure you have the creativity and respect of the work you are now steward of to make it good. The video made the case that he didn’t.
So watch the original video before you watch the following video. I know its five hours but worth it, and will give you an edge over the protestors who clearly didn’t watch it at all before making rage rants that caused Exci to make this follow-up video (don’t worry, this one is just under 30 minutes) where he clarifies his previous critiques and pushes back against those who didn’t even watch it before saying it was garbage. Note that both contains profanity. I like to warn people because I don’t use it myself so it’s good to have a heads up in something I can’t edit for PG
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on August 4, 2021 in Television Spotlight, web series and tagged Chris Chibnall, commentary, Doctor Who, The Thirteenth Doctor, video essay.
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